Akersten, James Raglan, 1855-1928

Date: 1910

By: Akersten, James Raglan, 1855-1928

Reference: 1/2-002510-F

Description: Group of men, women and children and four clergymen outside St Paul's Church, Canvastown at the time of the consecration ceremony. Photograph taken by Akersten. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

By: Akersten, James Raglan, 1855-1928; Mathieson, C, active 1980

Reference: PAColl-5746

Description: Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-110306 to 110332 Quantity: 27 b&w copy negative(s). Processing information: Formerly known as the Mathieson Collection

Date: 1910

From: St Paul's Ladies Guild : Photographs of St Paul's Church, Canvastown

By: Akersten, James Raglan, 1855-1928

Reference: PAColl-7577-1

Description: Group of men, women and children and four clergymen beneath the stained glass windows outside St Paul's Church, Canvastown at the time of the consecration ceremony February 24th 1910. Photograph taken by Akersten. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1919

From: [Ephemera relating to peace celebrations after World War I. 1919. Folder 2]

By: Akersten, James Raglan, 1855-1928

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Peace-1919-23

Description: Photograph shows a scene on the road through Havelock, with the Methodist Church (later the Museum) and a single storey house. Along the road is a line of children dressed for a parade in nurses' and sailors' costumes and other fancy dress. Donated with a programme for the Peace Day celebration 19 July 1919, with donor information that the photograph may show the children's procession on that day. However this may not be a winter scene. See Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151030, 23 July 1919, Page 2, where details of the parade and children's costumes may differ. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph on postcard, 88 x 138 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jenifer Hart, Wellington, in 2015. Transfers: Collection received in Ephemera; transfers on appraisal to Photographic Archive: two colour transparencies by photographer Forrest Marriott, WW2..

Date: February 8th 1919

By: Akersten, James Raglan, 1855-1928

Reference: 1/2-003085-F

Description: A group photograph of the children of Pelorus Bridge School on the occasion of their picnic with their parents. Photographer was James Akersten. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: [ca 1900]-1941

By: Fox Photos Ltd; Fischer, Adolf Gottlieb, 1858-1936; Steffano Webb Photographic Studio; Akersten, James Raglan, 1855-1928; Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948; Coronation Studio

Reference: PAColl-8358

Description: Photographs of World War I soldiers, soldiers marching on Labour Day in Marshland Camp in 1941, and members of the Maori Battalion in London. Motor vehicles including images of a Johnson & Smith coach taken by Steffano Webb, and a NZ Farmers Co-Operative Association Ltd vehicle taken by Coronation Studio. View of a bridge, possibly Pelorus Bridge, taken ca 1900 by James Raglan Akersten The exterior of Dexter & Crozier Ltd, motor car importers and engineers, Christchurch, taken by an unknown photographer. The interior of an engineering workshop, taken by Samuel H Head of Christchurch. A group of people in front of Havlock Town Hall on the day of the children's Easter sports and picnic, taken 1912 by James Raglan Akersten. A group of airmen including Captains Upham, Musgrove, Wilks and George Hood, and Leonard Monk Isitt, standing in front of a bi-plane taken ca 1920 by an unknown photographer, Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2005

Date: [ca 1883]

By: Akersten, James Raglan, 1855-1928

Reference: PA2-0003

Description: Possibly Tom Moonlight, cousin of George Fairweather Moonlight. Photograph taken circa 1883 by James Akerston. Source of descriptive information - Originally identified as George Fairweather Moonlight. Disputed by Library client, 2007. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).